February 2010 Archives

Fieldday is one of the most powerful plugins for MovableType however documentation is limited and it doesn't have sufficient examples. If you want to get a list of blogs that are from a specific type (ie. socal), you can use the following snippet. Notice that blog type is defined as radio select blog fields at system level.

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HashTag 2.5 Released

Version 2.5 of my HashTag plugin has now been released. See the Hash Tag Plugin project page for more information. The major change in 2.5 is the ability to tweet scheduled posts, currently that uses the default settings for the...

Paged Archives 1.4

I was totally not going to upgrade to Movable Type 5.1, but then I was emailed by German user Elisa Stulpe, who said that my Paged Archives plugin wasn't working in the new version of MT. So. Long story......

More Custom Fields Update

OMG, a free meal!
As I'm informed by a user that Paged Archives isn't working under the new Movable Type 5.1, I'm going to have to install the new MT on a test server so I can fix my plugin. Because I know...

Going to Webstock 2010 - Blog

I'll be at Webstock this year again. I enjoyed it a lot last year and I'm really looking forward to seeing this edition. I only go to two web conferences nowadays, Paris Web as an organizer and Webstock as an...

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On the Speaking Circuit, continued

As we mentioned recently, Carla Bourque, Six Apart Sales and Biz Dev VP, participated on a panel at OMMA Social here in San Francisco last week.  If you missed the event, you can read about it in moderator David Berkowitz’s...
If you always wanted to create your own template set but never sure where to start, check out Byrne Reese's MT Export Template Set Plugin. This plugin helps you to create a new template set based on your existing templates in a specific blog. Template files will be exported as a plugin which can easily be installed on MovableType. This plugin is the real solution where hundreds of blogs needs to be managed within one MT instance. The best way to follow is to create global templates and include them in your blog level templates. Implementing this architecture, all the...
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Number Five is Alive (Generally)

After quite some time, MT-Notifier version five is close to seeing the light of day. Or, at the very least, crawling out from under the rock from which he has been hiding. I am sure that there are those who...

[Plagin] Of mT-Notifier became free

If you want to create a featured area like which will display featured entries from all the blogs in MT with featured images and entry title, the following snippet will do it for you. If an entry asset is not tagged as @footer-featured it will automatically grab the first asset linked to the entry. Display the featured image tagged @footer-featured if not found display another asset that belongs to the entry " rel="bookmark">" src=""/>
It is taking so much time to create the same functionality over and over again when I am working on the client work. There is no need to re-invent the wheel so I will be posting my MT template snippets here...